Executive Orders

[dan_bgblue]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/04/19/obama-taking-executive-action-on-guns-after-senate-vote/?test=latestnews

[CitizenBBN]

. "We're going to address the barriers that prevent states from participating in the existing background check system."

Something the industry and gun advocates have been saying should be done for years. Took Obama 5 years to get around to it, despite his apparent deep concern for guns being in the hands of the mentally ill. It will meet with little opposition in the gun community provided those submitted as unable to own guns are ruled as such through a judicial process and not just any doctor who happens to not like guns.

A series of basic procedural changes would do more to keep guns from the hands of lunatics and criminals than all the blustering legislation that has thus been proposed.

[suncat05]

But like he always does, he'll take it much further than it needs to go.

[Darrell KSR]

Outstanding.

Truth is, it may not prevent much violence. But it is correlative to a clear danger for it; hence, decent legislation, of which we see very little these days.

[CitizenBBN]

But like he always does, he'll take it much further than it needs to go.

IMO it will be the things that leave no paper trail where we have to worry. I've heard rumblings that ATF is coming down on the small time dealers, guys without retail stores, auditing them and trying to revoke licenses. If you combine that with the "trafficking" laws you get a picture of a plan to push sales to retail stores that can be more readily managed and tracked and inspected.

Fast and Furious is a great example. No EO needed, no record whatsoever of a plan that let 2,000 guns get into criminal hands and, maybe not coincidentally, provide support for Feinstein's gun ban report. I'm more worried about what ATF is being told to do that requires no paper trail at all.

Obama did allocate $20 million to NICS improvements. That's $480 million short of the money budgeted for the upgrade 8 years ago. So $480 million and 8 years short, the government (not just Obama) has a lot of catching up to do on bringing NICS up to snuff.

[suncat05]

And what you're describing here is exactly what Obama wants: 1)more government oversight over everything possible, and 2)driving even more small, independent businessmen into extinction.
A true Communist in every sense.